Why Migrate Process Simulate to 3DEXPERIENCE

Automotive OEMs are increasingly standardizing on Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE to create a connected and controlled digital manufacturing environment. The platform enables a true single source of truth where engineering, manufacturing, simulation, robotics, and production planning are managed within one collaborative ecosystem. For OEMs working with multiple suppliers and line builders, this creates major advantages in traceability, quality assurance, project coordination, and long-term lifecycle management.

At the same time, many line builders still rely heavily on Siemens Process Simulate for layout design, robot simulation, and virtual commissioning. This creates a major challenge during project delivery. Factory layouts, robot data, tooling structures, signals, kinematics, and process logic often remain locked inside Process Simulate disconnected studies that are difficult and time-consuming to integrate into 3DEXPERIENCE manually.

Without a structured migration strategy, OEMs risk building fragmented factory environments filled with duplicated geometry, unmanaged JT data, inconsistent structures, and layouts that cannot support future virtual commissioning initiatives.

Prodtex helps bridge this gap. Our migration approach enables OEMs to preserve the value of existing Process Simulate projects while transforming them into structured, scalable, and future-ready 3DEXPERIENCE digital factory environments. The result is improved control of manufacturing data, faster onboarding of new vehicle programs, reduced manual administration, and a stronger foundation for simulation-driven production development.

From Legacy Layouts to a True Virtual Twin

A modern digital factory is much more than a 3D layout. To create real long-term value, manufacturing data must support robotics, kinematics, process validation, virtual commissioning, and future production changes across the entire lifecycle of the factory.

Traditional import approaches often create large amounts of static “dead CAD” geometry with limited intelligence and poor maintainability. These layouts quickly become difficult to manage and rarely support the structured workflows required inside 3DEXPERIENCE. Over time, this leads to duplicated data, inconsistent factory structures, and digital environments that no longer reflect the real production system.

Prodtex focuses on delivering migration results that create sustainable business value instead of temporary visual representations. Our migration concept supports the transformation of Process Simulate layouts into structured 3DEXPERIENCE factory environments aligned with modern Body-in-White best practices. This enables OEMs to build scalable digital factories that are easier to maintain, validate, and evolve throughout future vehicle programs.

The business impact is significant. Engineering teams gain better visibility into factory data, robot systems become easier to reuse across projects, and manufacturing organizations can work from a consistent and standardized digital factory model. The result is reduced engineering effort, improved collaboration between OEMs and suppliers, lower project risk, and a stronger platform for future automation and virtual commissioning initiatives.

For many customers, the migration becomes an important strategic step toward establishing a true virtual twin of the factory.

What We Can Deliver

Prodtex delivers a complete migration framework for transforming Siemens Process Simulate data into structured and production-ready 3DEXPERIENCE factory environments. The solution supports everything from basic layout migration to advanced virtual commissioning preparation, depending on the customer’s target maturity level and business goals.

Our deliveries can include transformation of factory layouts, migration of robot structures, deployment of robot profiles, TCPs, workobjects, speeds, zones, mounted tooling, external axes, home positions, robot targets, robot operations, and process structures. We also support migration of kinematics, dress-up structures, simulation-ready equipment behavior, signal creation, signal mapping, and PLC-related logic preparation.

For customers working with CATIA V5 tooling, the migration can preserve existing engineering investments while connecting design models into structured 3DEXPERIENCE factory layouts. This creates a scalable digital factory foundation without forcing customers to rebuild equipment data manually.

The overall goal is to help OEMs establish maintainable, future-proof digital manufacturing environments that support collaboration, simulation, process validation, and long-term lifecycle management. Depending on the selected scope, the final result can range from a structured 3D factory layout to a fully virtual commissioning-ready digital twin prepared for robotics simulation and production validation workflows.

Prodtex can support customers through migration-as-a-service projects, collaborative deployment programs, or long-term enablement strategies where internal teams gradually take ownership of the migration process.